Last Updated: 14 Oct, 2023 | Views: 332
Age: 82
Profession: Author
Other Profession(s): Poet, NoveList, Playwright, Educator
Famous For: Wrote Bless Me (Novel)
Higher Education: Graduated
About (Profile/Biography):
Rudolfo Anaya, a famous author from the USA, was born in New Mexico. He spent 19 years teaching at Albuquerque’s University of New Mexico until he retired in 1993. Rudolfo dabbled with many styles of writing and put out a lot of work including plays, children’s books, epic poems, short stories, and essays. Being able to create stories that perfectly captured what it was like being Chicano allowed him to earn the title as one of the best writers in the Latino literary world. This impressive man died on June 28th 2020 at the age of 82.
Career:
Anaya enrolled in a business school after earning her diploma from Albuquerque High School in 1956 to become an accountant.
If moving to Albuquerque when Anaya was a teenager had disrupted his world, college life gave him a full-blown identity crisis.
English was still his second language, and his professors and classmates who spoke the language thought he frequently employed improper speech patterns. He felt alienated, alone, and unique since he lacked mentors to encourage and advise him.
Anaya shattered two vertebrae in his neck and almost died after diving into the ditch. Anaya's recovery from his injuries took a long time and was challenging. Still, he eventually recovered after spending the summer in the hospital and being fiercely motivated to resume his active lifestyle.
Achievements and Awards:
Anaya was a Mexican American in an intellectual and social environment where another culture predominated. He discovered that his classes had nothing to do with his history or culture.
When he was sixteen, Anaya experienced a diving mishap while swimming with friends in an irrigation ditch. This incident altered the trajectory of his adolescence.
Unknown facts:
The teen boy's experience gave him a zest for life and an understanding of how adversity can either ruin or transform one's existence.